Saxon v. Blann’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 676 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2018
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 202 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 204 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · Frank Music Corp. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. · Mitchell Bros. Film Group v. Cinema Adult Theater · Design Classics, Inc. v. Westphal
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o transfer ownership of a copyright, the parties must state in writing that they intend to transfer a copyright.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.